FACULTY PROFILE

Professor Wettstein has written three books—The Significance of Religious Experience, The Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, and Has Semantics Rested On a Mistake?, and Other Essays. During the last decade an additional focus has been the philosophy of religion; he has published on topics like religious experience, awe, the problem of evil, and the viability of philosophical theology.

NEWS

Carl Cranor has been selected to receive the Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professorship for 2014-15. He thus joins a group of distinguished philosophers who received it earlier including Penelope Maddy, Stanley Cavell, Susan Wolf, Kendal Walton, and Harry Frankfurt. Join us in congratulating Professor Carl Cranor!

Dear Colleagues, I am saddened to inform you that Bernd Magnus, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, passed away on November 3, 2014, at the age of 76. He was a long-time member of UCR’s Philosophy Department, serving as its Chair from 1972 to 1976 and, again, from 1979 to 1983. Born in Danzig, Germany, Prof. Magnus […]